The Sun. — London, England, 1864-11-15 00:00:00

LIFEBOAT SERVICES. —During the storms of the past year the boats of the National Lifeboat institution saved 417 persons from different wrecks on our coasts, The Institution also expended £13,819 3s. 2d. in the same period on lifeboat estab ishments, in addition to granth.g £1, , 51 6s. Od. as rewards for say ng 714 shipwrecked perians by its lifeboats, an i other means. The Committee of the Institution edrnesty A 'ePEAL to the public for ASSISTANCE to enable them to meet the continued heavy demands on the Institution's 137 lifeboat , establishments. Contributions are received by all the don and eountrY bankers ; and by the Secretary, Richard Lewis, at the Institution, 14, John-street, Adelphi. TIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Sole Manager and Director, Mr. W. Harrison. ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE WEEK. THIS EVENING, and during the week, the performances 'will commence with YOU KNOW WllO. Followed by Gounod's Grand Opera, FAUST. Margarita, Miss Louisa Pyne ; Faust, Mr. Sims Reeves. To-morrow (Wednesday) Evening, and Friday, Verdi's Grand Opera, TRA.VIATA. Violel, Madame Kenneth ; Cermont, Mr. Santley. Conductor, Signor ARDITI. Private Boxes, from los. ed. ; Stalls, 7s. ; Dress Circle, 55.; Yirst Circle, is. ; Upoer Boxes, 3s. ; i Gallery, ls. Box Office pen from Ten till Five. No charge for booking places, nor fees to box-keepers. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.-- Managers, Messrs. E. Falconer and F. B. Chatterton. THIS EVENING, TOO MUCH FOR GOOD NATURE. llessrp. G. Eelmore, Fitzjames. G. Wes on ; Misses Helen jioward and R. Leclercq, Mrs. Vandenhoff, Mrs. C. Melvide, After which, Shaksnere's Tragedy of M XCBETIT. Mr. Cres‘,vick; Messrs Marston, R. ltoxby, G. Belmore, A Rayner, a F. Neville, Edmund Phelps, J. Neville, Bartleman, cue ; Misses Rebecca Isaacs, Emma Heywood, and Miss Atkinson. Doors open at ha f-past Six—Commence at Seven. T HEATRE ROYAL, HA.YNIARKET.— Lessee. Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE SUN AND THE WIND. After vi hich, THE STRANGER. Messrs. Howe, Chip. pendale, Farren, Compton, Rogers, Gordon, Braid, &c. Mesdames Beatrice, Keeley, Fitzwilliam, Moore, &c. Followed by ON THE SLY. Messrs. Buckstone, Rogers. Gordon, &c. ; Mesdames Snowdon, Fitzwilliam, &c. And OUR MARY ANNE. Miss H. Lindley, Mr Clarke. To commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the sole management of Mr. Fechter. THIS EVENING, THE KING'S BUTTERFLY. Fan fan, the King's Butterfly, Mr. k echter. Messrs. Ryoer,Wid dicomb, Ch rles, M'lntyre, Garden, Raymond, Moreland, C iftbrd, Collett; Misses Carlot a Le:lercq, M. Henrade, E. .avenue, and B. Lavenue. Preceded, at 7, by NURSEY CHICKWEED. Messrs. H. Widdicomb, Garden, Moreland, Collett ; Miss Lavenue,Mis. Lee. Doors open at half-past 6 ; commence at 7. The Box-office open daily from Ekv,n till Five. • KING'S BUTTERFLY.-LYCEUNI TREAT RE.—Fanfan, the King's Butterfly, Mr FEufiTEß.—The most :oceessful Drama produced for years. ROY AL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.- Sole Lessee and Manager, Mr. Gco. Vining. THIS EVENING, BORN TO GOOD LUCK. faddy O'ltairerty, Mr. Dominick Murray. Alter which, THE STREETS OF LONDON. Messrs. Vining, J. W. Ray, D. Fi her, D. Murray, J. Nelson, H. Forrester. H. Mellon ; Mrs. Henry Marston, Miss Emma arnett, and Miss F.nny Gwynne. NENV THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHL- Solo Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, DOING BANTING. Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. Stephenson; Mrs. Lewis and Miss A. Seaman. After which, MASKS AND FACES. Triplet, Mr. B. Webster ; Peg Woffli,„*.ton. Mrs. Stirling (their original cha racters); Messrs. Bil.ington, tt. Phillips, P. Bedford, Stuart, .Eburne, C J. Smith, and Miss H. Simms. To conclude with THE COLLEEN BAWN. Myles (with songs), Mr. John Collins Messrs. Billingtoi , , ii.. Philips, Stephenson, Eburne, R. Romer, C. J. Smith ; Mrs. Alfred Mellon (Miss Woolgar), Miss U. Simm , , Mrs. Biiling•ton, and Mrs. IL Lewis. Commence at 7. ROYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. Manager, Mr. Benjamin Webster. EMINEN T TALENT AND COMEDY DRAMA. This Popular Theatre is now Open. THIS EVENING, a new Musical Drama, entitled THE BARONET AOAD AND THE RUSTIC 1'11.131A LONNA : Mr. Frank bath e 8 ; Miss Constance Roden. After which, at a quarter to Eight, a new and original Comedy Drama, in three acts, by J. Palgrave Sim; eon. enti tled SY RILL A ; or, STEP BY STEP. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Mathews. To conclude with Mr. Maddison Morton's New Comedy Farce of WuOD,_OCK'S LITTLE GAME. Mr. Charles Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews. 3rISS ADAH ISAACS ME NKEN, _IL whose graceful and classic beauty, transcendant his trionic power, and heroic amazonian courage, form the liel,,hic tripod from which the inspiration of her genius throws a new spell even on Byron's al AZ S:I'PA, and who delights and encligins the Old World as she has astounded and enthralled the New, appears in her great impersonation of mAzErrA EVERY NIGHT at ASTLEY'S. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee and Manageress. Mrs. Swanborouc.fh. THIS EVENING, WILFUL WARD. Messrs Parselle and Belford ; Miss Palmer. Followed by, at Eight, MILKY WHITE. Messrs. Craven, Stoyle, James ; Mesdatnts Swanbor .ugh and Mande s. To conclude with MAZEPPA. Mesdames Raynham, Simpson, .tc. G RATIS AND POST FREE. E. MOSES and SONS' New Pamphlet, THE PHILOSOPHY OP DRESS. EMOSES AN 1) SON • respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. The newest faorics are combined with the latest and most fashionable oesins, and the best workmanship. E. MOSES and SON give particular attention to this important branch of their business, and they can with confidence affirm that the prices Are such as must satisfy the most economical. 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JOHN SCOTT, sole bgent THE THIRD EDITI ON OF " THE SUN,' Containing the Latest SPORTING INTELLIGENCE can be had Every Evening of G. R. GLMNEN, NEWA AGENT, No, 4, Connaught-terrace, Ilyde-park. THE LATES r EDITION of ``THE SUN" supplied, as soon as published every Evening; by HENRY BROOKS, - Newspaper Agent, 24, Old Cavendish itreet, W. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tata DAT.—Moraing, 2h. 42m.—Afternoon, 3h. 8m T , i - moituow.-Morning, 3h. 28ta.—Afternoon, 3a. 60,n tt4-.: .:• 111 • ir LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV, 16, 1861. The last scene in the great social tragedy which has so vivid'y excited the interest of the metropolis was yesterday played out, and the murderer of Mr ' BPJGGS went to his account with all the grim and ghastly formalities of death on the gallows. Thote about him had little hope that any admission from the culprit's own lips would attest the justice of his sen.tenee, however fervently it might be desired both on his own account and on that of others. Happily at the very last moment his inflexible re serve gave way, and his last words to the kind minister of his own faith who attended him at that dreadful moment, were a positive confessioa of his guilt. Whether, as Dr. RAPPEL seemed to think, upheld by the hope of reprieve, or whether frcm re. uctance to admit his guilt to his fellow-men, MULLER persistently replied to the adjurations hat were addressed to him with declarations of his ,nnocence. It is true that after a recent visit from one of the Sheriffs, who found him reading the Bible, and reminded him that the promisee of mercy were dependent upon repentance and confession, that he remarked that confession to man was use- .ess, an observation that seemed to indicate he had something to tell if he would. But to the moving appeals of Dr. KAPPEL he continued to repeat the same assertions of innccence, although his kind visitor told him plainly he believed he had a hand in the crime, if not the only criminal. Only, at the last moment, when with the fatal rope round his neck, and his feet resting on the frail supports about to be drawn away, were Dr. KAPPEL'S efforts successful, and MULLER, shrinking seem ingly from facing his Maker with the reiterated lie, said firmly and plainly, " Yes, I did it." Some versions say that he added that no other person was concerned in it, but whether or no, the admission of his own guilt was the great point, and this was conclusive and unmistakeable. So much was Dr KAPPEL overcome by the emotion attending the scene, and the almost unexpected success of his last appeal, that he nearly fainted from agitation. And so ends this dismal story, and those who, from mis taken kindness, would have sought to mitigate the culprit's doom are now finally con vinced of the justice of his sentence. The conviction of MuLLER's guilt was almost unanimous, and for the most part those who denied that he was the only criminal, believed with Dr. KAPPEL that he was concerned in the murder. His confession was the only thing to be hoped for to set the point definitively at rest, for, although the chain of evidence had not a link mis sing, still there will always remain some who are hard to convince, and others who, appalled by the nature of the punishment, shrink from the respon sibility of condemning a possibly innocent man to a violent and shameful death. No crime of late years has created the same intense and general excite ment. From the first announcement of the murder to the tragedy of yes'erday, all London was moved by it, Even in quiet byeways and out of the way suburbs the curiosity and anxiety,to obtain tidings of the culprit's last moments were intense, and the ordinary channels of news could not be obtained fast enough. When it was known that MULLER had confessed his guilt there was a sensible relief in the public mind, for however great the moral conviction, an absolute admission deepens and strengthens it. So much have we recoiled from the Draconian theory of a past generation, and so deeply has the public mind been impressed with the tales of innocent victims to a mistaken convic tion dying on the scaffold, that judge, jury, and public would now be far more willing to acquit a guilty man than to condemn unjustly, though, in truth, as the Lord Chief Baron very justly observed, both are great misfortunes in the administration of national justice. Still we must not hope or rely on always obtaining such an admission, and justice would soon stand still if murderers knew that their silence would ensure their escape from the gallows. The man who deliberately plans to take the life of a fellow-creature is not likely to hesitate about tell ing a lie, and it would cost him very little to deny his guilt, and to persist in that denial in spite of every entreaty. One thing is forcibly shown by the circumstances attending MULLER'S death and confession, and that is the injury which is done to the criminal and the public by the present uncer tain action of the law. Dr. KAPPEL declared his conviction that the hope of life was so strong in MULLER that he had made up his mind not to con fess until the very last moment, and this deter. , mination, as we have eeen, he fully carried out. Reprieves and commutations have become so fre quent that the criminals rely upon them, and are naturally reluctant to speck the words that would for the most part seal their doom. Thus the deter rent influence, which is the great argument in favour of capital punishment, is in a great measure lost, and, when inflicted, the culprit refuses to make that confession which is the only atonement in his power. Wise and good men may naturally object to capital punishment in any shape, but so long as it is the law of the land, it should be administered with firmness as well as with mercy. The hand of Justice should not tremble when she uses her sword, however reluctant she may be to wield it. However forcible the arguments against the extreme penalty, a civilised community may well shrink from breaking down that barrier with which men in all ages have thought it necessary to protect the sacred temple of life; and when we rtflect on the number and violence of the temptations which beset the uncon trolled passions of men, the love of gain, the thou sand frauds, and plots, and intrigues to which our complicated social machinery gives rise—anger, jealousy, revenge, and all their attendant motives, we shall hesitate to remove the warning influence of a public death. At least not at a time when the whole tendency of society is too much in favour of extenuating the crime, when the rigid rules of right and wrong are too likely to be forgotten in the desire to apologise or atone for the transgressor, No one can read of MuLLER's last moments without pro found compassion for the man, and a deep sense of his awful position ; but we must not forget that his own guilt brought him to that appalling situation. We must not forget that he has made a happy home desolate, has sent a good and honourable man to a death more violent and more hurried than his own, and that to the natural regret for the loss of a friend and relative he has added the terrible shock of so sudden and so dreadful a catastrophe. He has gone with his sins to a higher tribunal, and the one feeling of all Christian men will be a hope that he may there be found worthy of mercy; but in our narrow and shortsighted sphera it behoves us to remember that the command to respect life comes from a higher authority than our own, and while we hesitate about condemning a guilty man, there is no doubt that the criminal infringes the laws of heaven as well as of earth, when he trenches on the command, " Thou shalt do no murder." The uninitiated in such matters would be sur prised if they were to find out all the lets and hind rances that are put in the way of the poor, when struggling to gain their daily bread. It would seem as if the laws and enactments of this country, so perfect in many respects, and so admirably adapted for the people they appertain to, had a par ticular exception in regard to the clauses which affect destitution. Well might Lord STANLEY say the other day, that to pauperise a man i❑ England was to degrade him. It needed not one, of the noble lord's observation and experience, to detect this flaw in our social system, and this glaring evil that lurks among our laws and statutes. The case of Mr. BAUYARD, at Cambridge, is one which is most extraordinary, and aptly represents the anomalies that are continually presenting themselves in our poor-law arrangements. A man named PARKER had worked for him in his manufactory, and when he died Mr. BAIIYARD naturally felt an interest in his family. He met the widow accidentally, and she then informed him that she was desirous of pro ceeding to Leeds, where she had Erie d e . To enable her to do so Mr. BAUYARD gave her a Eovereign LATEST INTELLIGENCE. :o make up the necessary sum for her journey. (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) From this simple circumstance, however, great con fusion arose. The poor woman became chargeable to the union at Leeds, and there she related the AMERICA. [ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIAN. NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (Evening). (Via Greencastle.) _ _ generosity of Mr. BAUYARD. As this latter was a guardian, the authorities at Leeds became vir tuously indignant, and prosecuted him for having infringed the statute which prohibits any one en r.ged as officer under the Poor.law Board from The _Richmond Sentinel, the organ of the Con derate Government, recommends the arming of the giving or causing to he given any assistance, pecu. niary or otherwise, to persons, in order that they may,by that assistance, declare themselves destitute. In consequence, Mr. BAUYARD incurred the penalty of a fine. The Cambridge guardians consulted the slaves. General Hood, with 30,C00 men, is reported to have crossed the Tennessee river, and to be moving northward. The Confederates have captured the gunboat Undine on the Tennessee river. Forrce, Buford, Chalmers, and Bell are concen. trating their forces. They have 14 cannons besides the gunboat Undine. Deserters state that orders had been _read to the confederate troops to the effect that Hood would cr'ss the Tennessee at Bridgeport and march north% ward, whilst Forrest attacked Johnsonville. Southern papers say that Hood is now probably in middle Tennessee. They anticipate great results from his movements. Poor-law Board as to the advisability of their carry- 9g the matter to a higher court. Of course the answer to such a question may be guessed. Ani mated with the true spirit of red-tapism, and fired with the zeal of precedent, the Board returned for reply that they had no power to interfere in the decision of the court on the matter at all, but they were of opinion that " the expenditure of Union funds for the defence of a guardian charged with offences against the poor-law was illegal." In con sequence of this utterance of the oracle, the Cam bridge guardians forbore to press the case, or else they had intended to carry it to the superior courts. quarters are at Gadsen. Beauregard's head The Federal garrison of Atlanta is reported to number 6,000 men. .... Can anything be more absurd than such an occur rence, and does it not prove in a striking manner how faulty is the system which is supported by Grant's troops are building log houses. Mr Seward has informed the Mayors of New York and Buffalo that the State Department had information from Canada that a conspiracy existed to fire the principal Northern cities on the Presi dential election day. The Mayor of New York in formed Mr Seward in reply that he had no fear of incendiary threats being carried out. He was, how ever, prepared for the emergency. The Democratic press charge the Administration with fabricating the report in order to put cities under martial law. Considerable excitement prevails at Ogensburg, a raid from the Canadian frontier being appre hended. such aids and preserved by such means ? Why should a man be prevented from exercising his feelings of benevolence because he happens to be a guardian ? Is it to be understood that it is as if he was enrolled a member of the Sccret Tribunal, bound to carry out its mandates, and forbidden to interfere with any other concerns than those which relates to its immediate province P Is it necessary that, to be a worthy guardian and a faithful servant of the Poor-law Board, he must sink feeling, stifle conscience, and renounce independence ? It is strange to note how very successful has been the crusade waged against penury, indigence, and want by the votaries of the new regime, and how effectually they have made the Unions the General Butler has arrived at New York, giving rise to a supposition that he will assume the com mand during the elections. subjects of terror to all who are threatened with the likelihood of being immured therein. No prison is ever looked upon with such feelings of horror , loathing, and detestation, To gain bread many commit crimes to become immured in the one, while Governor Seymour has issued a proclamation, appealing to all parties to unite in allaying undue excitement during the election. The State officers will sic that every man has a free ballot, and no military organisations will be permitted near the polls. Military interference will be resisted with the full farce of the law. General Dix has issued another proclamation, stating that no military will be embodied around the polls. The military will, if called upon, aid the civil authorities. Several Democratic electioneering agents have addressed reports to Governor Seymour, stating that the Administration and military authorities put every possible difficulty in the way of their ob• taining soldiers' votes, and that they give unfair facilities to the Republican agents. The privateer Chickamauga, which left Wilming. ton on the 2.7 th, has burnt the ship Shooting Star and two barks off Cape Delaware. The Tallahassa has destroyed several vessels off Black Island. many, on the contrary, starve rather than enter n or remain in the other. In a Christian country it seems most strange to class one thus above abject misery and complete destitution, but so it is, and the stigma is affixed to our society so much as to make one ashamed of upholding such a mockery of justice and profanation of mercy. Numberless are the instances which accumulate around us to prove the dread which the poor enter tain of the Union, and the approaching inclement season will multiply them tenfold. It is all very well for the effluent to descant upon their likes and dislikes for this or that mode of living or choice of occupation, but those of whom we speak have pro. claimed their feelings and made known their senti ments on life's worst agonies and death's most dreary advent. It is indeed in the form of the king of terrors that the stern messenger seeks out their shivering frames in their unfurnished rooms, de void of food and fire, and amid the many dreary scenes which every year gives rise to the ruling motive that seems to actuate the ;renter part of these hapless sufferers is heir unconquerable dread of the workhouse. [le other day a coroner's inquest was held on the lc.dy of a little girl who died in the greatest want, whieh aggravated.the disease under which she sank, Die jury returned a verdict that her death was cc ,lasioncd by want of the common necessaries of life A similar case was that of an infant literally starved to death, and the parents observed that the deceased had been fed by halfpenny worth's of arrowroot that they procured at any hour of the day or night as they could got the means to do so, It is the old, old story still throughout all of these distressing incidents the poor have an insuperable horror of entering the poorhouse, and those with families especially dread it. Surely something is fundamently wrong in a system whose workings are so faulty and so unsatis factory. A man died the other day of destitution, and those who afforded him some relief deposed that he would not be persuaded to enter the workhouse, declaring that nothing should induce him to do so. Life after life falls a sacrifice,death after death swells the dreary list of those who carry their dislike to such establishments to the borders of the grave, and only leave it on the confines of that other world which knows no distinction between rich and poor, but where all are equal, from DIVES to LAZARUS. [t seems as if no multiplication of instances can or will impress those most immediately connected with the workings of such matters:; but has not society at large any interest in the fate of these hapless sufferers, and cannot any philanthropic persons take up the question with interest and good will ? The reforms that have taken place in many social affairs of late years have been worthy and memorable. The factory women and children are now released from the pressure of much overwork, the condition of those who labour at unhealthy trades has been greatly improved, the arrange ments that concern the madhouses and lunatic asylums, both public and private, are placed upon a much better footing ; but why should it be consi dered that the poor are not to be relieved and tended in a more pleasing fashion. It is well to enter into detail, because it is the principle that is wrong, and it is proved in the practice in such a manner that if one rose from the dead he could do no more to persuade us. Perhaps the best way of settling the question would be to ask, would those who frame and fashion all these devices for the poor choose any of such arrangements for themselves, their families or friends, if He as ho gives all worldly goods suddenly deprived them of their possessions and sent them forth to beg in the wilderness of the world. It is a scendal to the wealthiest coma munity that poverty should thus be ground down under our feet and treated with such con tumely and reproach. Its ills are numerous enough without these mortifying additions, and it is not upon the principle that actuates the other regula tions of our laws that for fear one undeserving per son should receive relief the young, the aged, and the sickly aro to starve in our streets and perish miserably by our roadsides. Such conduct is a prostitution of the name of charity, and it cannot be called in accordance with common sense or simple justice. MONTREAL, Nov. 4. The Judges havo refused to grant a writ of Habeas Corpus for the St. Alban ra'.ders, on the ground that they were still under the magistrates' jurisdiction, and that no commitment had been yet made. NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (Morning). It is rumoured that Sherman is moving eastward 'rom Atlanta. It is reported from Washington that Butler will temporarily esuperbetle General Dig, who will be retained to cooperate with him. No official announcement has yet been made as to the reason of General Butler's preserco in Now Yurk. The steamer Lady Stirling has been captured. The Canadian steamer Belgian from Portland on he sth inst. arrived at Grecneastle shortly before a.m. to-day. The mob broke up the M'Clellan meeting at Bal. timore. A meeting of merchants and bankers has been held at Wall-street in favour of President Lincoln. The privateer Oluntcn has captured the bark Empress Theresa. Gold 1381 per cent. prem. The Commissioners sent to Washington by Governor Seymour, report that the Adminittration have refused their demands on behalf of the State of New York for the surrender of the State agents, for trial by the State authorities . COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (Evening.) Gold 137: per cent. premium. Exchange on 121in7oii; Stocks steady; New s, 126 ; Erie, 100 i; L y o o n rk don c , e 2 n s t 6 ra ; ls d , o. l P 22 ar ; is i , 5.2.0 Bonds, 1001,. THE ELECTIONS AT GENEVA. GENEVA, Nov. 15, The elections of the Grand Council have resulted in a victory for the Independents, who will have a majority of 20 in that assembly. FRANCE. PARIS, Nov, 15• The Const:tutionne/ of this morning, in an article signed by M. Paulin Limayrac, analyses the late speech of General La Alarmora, to which it gives its entire approval. BOURSE, Nov. 14.—The market has not been so firm as on Saturday, and prices are rather lower. Threes, for the Account, are now at 63f. 20c. and Mobilier at 892 f 50e. Railway Market also heavy. The market closed as fol!ows :- 4f per Cents. . . 92 —lltalian L0an...... 65 20 Do. end month.... .—Do. end mouth.... 65 20 3 per Cents Do. end month 65 10 Credit hlobilier B 9O Do. end month 915 Bank Shares 3105 Credit k wider 1175 Roman Ditto Threes ..•• New Mexican 60 60 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 47 25 Rome Debt .. — Deferred RAIL WAY& Cash. Account. Orleans , .... 835 . 4 . 840 Northern Lyons and Mediterranean 882 50 .. 88 5 Southern ........... J• 11 585 • • 585 Western Eastern .. , . Sardinian Austrian Lombard North of Spain Saragossa 440 .. 440 Ditto to Barcelona The Stock Exchange Committee have aprointed Thursday, 17th November, a special settling day in the following securities :—The Aberaman Iron Works (Limited) (late Crawshay Bailey's), for transactions only entered into on and after the 6:h September—quotation not asked for ; also in the New £5O Shares of the International Bank (Limited). In the Foreign and Colonial Produce Markets during the last few days there has not been much animation. The operations in tea have been post poned until to-day, when a large quantity will be offered for public competition. Sugars have been in moderate request at steady prices; while a fair business has been transacted in coffee and rice, Tallow has been in more demand, chit fly for home consumption,. and prices for both present and for ward delivery have shown an upward movement. The Clyde has arrived from Melbourne with £68,000. The Princess's Theatre. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SIR,—A. paragraph having appeared in Me Sun, to the t fftct that a rumour is in circulation that my tenure of this theatre is about to cease, in conse quence of my violation of conditions of the agree ment under which I hold the theatre, I beg to state that no such conditions exist, and that the report is utterly false and without foundation. I am happy to say, that in all my business trans actiors with my landlord, I am on the most friendly relations; and, believing the report to be as in jurious to him as to myself, your courteous insertion of my flat denial to the rumour will greatly oblige. —Your obedient servant, G. J. Vx.ING November 14. rHE SUN, LONDOW, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 15, 1864. LITERATURE, Miss Braddon's New Romance. Tha Doctor's Wife. By the Author of "Lady .Audley's Secret." Three Vols. Sohn Maxwell and Co. " Another and another"—of Miss Braddon's fictitious narratives—" still succeeds." Succeeds in more senses than one. Succeeds (the one the other) .n rapid sequence. Bat succeeds also in the sense :each in Lii time) of instant popularity. 'We should begin to have serious anxiety lest this singularly accomplished authoress might be overtasking her imagination injurieusly, by the extraordinary strain she has unquestionably been putting upon it within the last three or four years, but that we recognise with peculiar gratification the fact that her arVstic capacities evidence very distinct and s?preciable advancement. As a wo:k of art, as a contribution to imaginative literature, her last work is in many respects her best. It lacks the horrible glamour, no doubt which enveloped as with a mephitic atmosphere the ecenes and creatures depicted by her pen of fascinatio❑ in" Lady Audley's Secret." It cannot be pronounced as, ou the whole, quite so enthralling, from first to last, as " Aurora Floyd "—Aurora remaining still to our thinking the first and fore most amend all Miss Braddon's heroines. But, as a work of art—it is bte, right that we should here re-asnrt this very emphaticall;—both as a work of art and as a more highly elaborated and strenously thought-out contribution to imaginative literature, " The Doctor's Wife" is beyond either of those orlebrated historiettes. To begin with—it is not (although unmistakeably, as well as avowedly, from the hand of Miss Braddon) a Sensational Novel. Nay, it is not only not Sensational--it is directly derisive of the Sensational School of Modern Novelists conspicuous among whom, of course, stands quite notoriously, the authoress herself. I❑ testimony of its satirical character in this way as a good-humouredly censorious com mentary upon the extravagance of literary sensa tionalism, it is only necessary that we should refer —and refer, moreover (as we can) in the highest terms of commendation—to the singularly humour ous portraiture of Sigismund Smith, the Penny Novelist—in its way, as a humourous portraiture, an unquestionable 'masterpiece. " Ihe Doctor's Wife," in point of fact, reveals in our authoress an eminently delightful sense of the ludicrous. A sense of the ludicrous so poignant, indeed, at times as to be just fairly irresistible. Of this fact the every touch (even the minutest) applied to the delineation of Sigismund Smith, affords triumphant attestation. As to the mere verbal facilities of word-painting, Miss Braddon had already, of course, supplied her readers with abundant proofs of her capabilities in that direction as a vividly realistic woman-of-letters. "A nice derangement of epitaphs," as Mrs Maloprop expresses it, being among her most easily recognis able characteristics as a writer of fiction. It is no marvel in tho leant, therefore, when we find her, here, onco more, by some apt choice of words or phrases, realising instantane. ously a whole scene or locality—city or sylvan it matters little which. We remember the per fumed cloister of the Lime Avenue, murmuringly musical with bees,in "Lady Audley's Secret"—we recall to mind the trelissed lodge under the fra grantly festooned eaves of which that pitiless horse-jockey husband of Aurora Floyd's coolly smokes his tobacco, looking out for the advent of the travelling carriage—and we in consequence welcome here as the merest matters of course those singularly slight but marvellously sufficient freaks and turns of the pen by which the same writer contrives at moments to sketch a scene in u sentence. As evidence of which—are we not with her in imagination in the early morning out upon the pavements of the Loudon suburb, at her momentary mention, quite casually as it were, of " the clattering tin pails and the slopping of nak,," there blending pleasantly, she renaluds us, with the cry of the milkman. It is, as a realistic touch of phraseology, like Mrs Beecher Stowe's realisation of the raw windy day blowing in through an inch. open window, where, in " Uncle Tom's Cabin," she writes of the curtain " flopping and snapping" in the uncomfortable current of air. Accus• tomed though we had become to these minute, though not by say means wholly insignificant excel lencies of style in Miss Braddon, WS acknowledge ourselves to have been here fairly taken by sur prise, upon the recognition of her nice appreciation and vivid sense of the ludicrous. The character of Sigismuud Smith alone, would be quite sufficient to make good her claim to be regarded as a humorist. The whole conception of that character is, in simple truth, unmistake ably and delightfully humorous. But, apart from Sigismund, the book under notice has other, and some among them hardly less distinct evi eences of Miss 13raddon's lively and exhilarating sense of the ridiculous. Take, for auample, her first mention of tue eldest among her new heroine's brothers—that very type or arch-exemplar of the genus— HOBBLEDEHOY! The person who had admitted them was a boy who had just arrived at that period of life when boys are most obnoxious. He had ceased to be a boy pure and simple, and not yet pre sumed to call himself a young man. Rejected on one side by his juniors, who found him arrogant and despotic, mooting strange and unorthodox theories with regard to marbles, and evincing supreme contempt for boys who were not familiar with the latest vaticination of the sporting pro phets in Bell's _Life and the Sunday Times; and flouted on the other hand ,by his seniors, who offered him half pence for the purchase of hardbake, and taunted him with base insinuations when he was seized with a sudden fancy for going to look at the weather in the middle of a strong cheroot—the hobbledehoy sought vainly for a standing place upon the social scale, and finding none, became a misanthrope, and wrapped himself in scorn as in a mantle. For a purely comic delineation, however, com mend us to Mr. Sigismund Smith, as we have him here pourtrayed for our amusement, time and again, in various parts of these three volumes, by the ex hilarating pen of Miss Braddon. It is peculiarly and especially as a Novel of Character that " The Doctor's Wife" is remarkable. It is not in the popular acceptation of the term, in any way a Sensation Story. Nay, as already indicated, it is for the most part the reverse of a Sensational story—being, to some extent (that is through the medium of Sigismund Smith's character), comically sarcastic upon the matter of what is called, for the nonce, Sensationalism. The chief, prevailing, para• mount merit of The Doctor's Wife as a work of art in imaginative literature, being the highly appre ciated and subtly diminutive delineation of The Doctor's Wife—that is, of the Doctor's Wife con sidered, not as a Book. but as a Character —lsabel Slsaford is the maiden name of this new heroine of domestio romance. Her father, ostensibly at the outset a barrister, not only briefiese but hard up, eventually turns out to be no barrister at all, but a low scoundrel who begins life with systematic forgery and ends his career by perpetrating a brutal assassination. Separated from her father upon the first detection of his forgeries—separated afterwards from the rest of her family, from her common place stepmother and those three vulgar cube her half-brothers—lsabel, after the fashion of so many young girls who are doomed, somehow or another, as best they can, to make their own way in the world entirely for themselves, becomes a governess. It is while she is a governess that the young Provincial Surgeon (Mr George Gilbert) —from her marriage with whom the book takes its title—proposes fur her hand, and without very much difficulty on her part, but also, it should be said, without, on her side, one particle of love, obtains it. George Gilbnt's character and home =ve cannot but regard as very pitilessly delineated. Insomuch so that we can hardly for the life of us very much blame Isabel for becoming bored almost to death by the tedium of both the one and the other. Surely, never was there a less home-like house-room than that horrid parlour at the surgeon's dwelling. And as for the young surgeon's insa tiable appetite for rank spring onions and knobby, prongy radishes as a relish with the cheese at supper well, really, it becomes even to the reader of the tale, a some thing just simply insufferable. George, how ever, the onion-munching surgeon at Gray bridge— a good-natured comely young buxuna animal, with , out two ideas worth speaking of in his head—is not the hero of the book! That high positio❑ being reserved for an enormously wealthy and spiritually handsome country equire turned poetaster,one Roland Lansdell—a sort of cross between Lara and the Heir of Redclyffe ! With this difference, however, that he has no such maddening reasons for remorse as the former, and certainly no such justifying Bens* of religions truth as the latter. Isabel, it must be understood, however, at once, is neither a bigamist nor yet an adulteress. She is so far true to her un congenial spouse, the surgeon of Graybridge But—with incorrigible naughtiness (there is evidently no severer term for it in the novelist's imagination)—she carries on a kind of a half intellectual, half emotional flirtation with Roland Lansdell, of Mordred, in Midlandshire. It comes to nothing,after all—this flirtation,in the way of a guilty liaison. babel falls not completely under the glamour of Roland's fascination. She preserves (save only in her secret heart) her conjugal purity. Roland, failing to persuade her to elope with him from her husband, while dogging her footsteps, gets murdered by Isabel's re turned-convict father. The violent death of Roland Lansdell, occurring at the close of the book, just immediately after the death in his bed (from a fever caught in his professional practice) of George Gilbert, of whom, by the way, we are really glad to get rid at the last by any means the novelist might have cared to contrive for that merest nonentity of character—one that is from first to last insufferably dull and tedious. Jeffion, the gardener, may grieve for " Master large " if he likes, and es it befits him ; but, for the life of us, we can't. The moral of the story seems to be little short of high treason, on the:part of Miss Braddon, to her own craft,that is,—the craftof theNevelist,the Romancist, the Fictionist, The lady spoken of in one of Mr Disraeli's now almost forgotten political stories as having guano'd her mind with French novels could hardly have more eoriously imperilled her character than Isabel Sleaford, afterwards Isabel Gilbert, is here represented as having done—by her excessive addition as a reader to our own by no means intrinsically dele terious masterpieces of imaginative literature, world-famous fictions, let us say, like those of Mr Charles Dickens or of Sir Edward Lytton. If Edith Dambey is mentioned once in "The DJctor's Wife" as having haunted the memory of Label to a great extent prejudicially—she is mentioned scores upon scores of times until we become abso lutely fatigued by the continually recurring reference Otherwise than in minor particulars such as these, the work before us is almost uninterruptedly en. tertaining. Upon its successful completion as a work Miss Braddon is here entitled to—what we would now venture to offer to her—meaning our very, earnest and cordial congratulations. Can you Forgive Her ? By Anthony Trollop© No. - XI. Chapman and Hill. Although Phiz's name is retained upon the cover of this popular serial as its avowed illustrator, another than Phiz has evidently contributed to the current instalment its two very clever and in , . geniously pencilled embellishments. " Great Jove" —ono of the two—is especially good, as a glimpse of a House of Commons Interior, with Great Jove himself (meaning Lord Palmerston) smiling complacently as he reclines in an easy attitude, with his hat pulled down over his eyes, on the Treasury bench. Before the number closes we learn —without one particle of interest or satisfaction— that that horrid, worldly-minded, selfish, horsey vulgarian, George Vavasor, has been returned as M.P. for the metropolitan constituency of the Chelsea Districts. Happily, we count upon his being either summarily unseated upon the charge of gross bribery and pot-house corruption, or by the still more sweeping announcement of a dissolution. Alice is not yet out of the thralls of her sordid Betrothed. Let her bat once more extricate herself from them and we may Forgive Her. Certainly not before then ! Lady Giencora seems to bo still going, going—though she is not yet gone as the unfaithful wife of the high and mighty Mr Palliser. Of the divinely handsome scapegrace Burgo Fitzgerald, who is wickedly tempting her to an adulterous elopement, we hear more than once, in these open ing chapters of Volume Two, though we see nothing of him. The situation attained in this de velopment of the plot is such that Two Heroines, d not one, simply, must in the end apparently claim the reader's forgivenness, MASKED ROBBERS.—Three young men were ap prehended on Sunday at Wadsley, a Tillage near Sheffield, on the charge of committing a very daring rob bery in that neigLbourhood. The prisoners are named re spectively Hutchinson, Chapman, and Bramhall, and the circumstances out:of which the charges arose are briefly these:—On Saturday night while a woman named Bibbs, who lives at Wadsley, was in the house during the absence of her husband, a man with his face concealed by a mask suddenly entered at the open door. He seized her by the throat, threw her into a chair, and stood menacingly over her, and two other men, also masked, entered the house and went up into the bedrooms. Mrs Bibbs, who was dread fully alarmed on account of her children, who were in bed, attempted to getup, but the ruffian drew a clasp-knife and threatened to murder her if she made the slightest noise. The affrightel woman asked what the men wanted, and the fellow repel, " We want your money," and he then inquired for her husband's wages. She told the men, who were now together, that her husband had not drawn any wages, and earnestly entreated to be allowed to go upstairs to her children, but the men refused, and the one who had the knife said ha would cut tier throat if she made any noise. He appeals were continued for some time, and one of the fellows remarked that if the eldest child awoke it would not scream twice, as he would cut its head off. This scene con tinued minutes, when the men made off with all the money (a few pounds) there had been in the house, and a large quantity of wearing apparel, to obtain which they had ran sacked all the drawers and boxes. The men compelled Mrs Bibbs, upon pain of violence, to say that she would not leave the house for half an hour after they had gone. The robbery created a great sensation in the village and the ad jacent town of Sheffield. They were brought up and re manded yesterday, M. BERRYER SKETCHED BY M. CORYRENIN.— M. Timon, in his, book "Les Orateurs," thus de• scribes the oratory of M. Berryer :—Yes, since Al irabeau, nobody has come up to Berryer—neither Gen. Foy, who recited rather than improvised, and who did not unite close reasoning to the powerful voice and the vast eloquence of Berryer ; nor ',tine, who had only harmonious and pathetic accents ; nor Do Serre, who, heavy and embarrassed in his exordium, only at intervals uttered the cry of oratorical passion ; nor Casimir Perier, who was vehement only in apostrophising; nor Benjamin Constant, whose talent had more flexibility than movement and energy ; nor Manuel, whose judgment was sure and bold, but who was more of a reasoner than an orator, and who never could, like Ber ryer, produce an involuntary thrill of wonder and delight. Nature has been favourable to Berryer. His stature is not tall, but his fine and expressive features reflect all the pas sinus of his soul. He fascinates you by his glance and by his gesture, marvellously noble, like his language. He is eloquent in his whole person. He takes possession of the tribune as if he were its mas ter—l should say its despot. But what he has beyond all other speakers in the Chamber is his incomparable voice—the first of beauties for actors as for orators. It is not, however, to his external qualities that he owes his pre eminence. He is a master in the art of oratory. The gene rality of speakers abandon themselves to the vivacity of their inspirations; and in their digressions they have now and then some fine bursts, but they are deficient in method. We do not always see, and they themselves do not know, whence they come and whither they go. They halt on the journey as if to reconnoitre the road. But what mekes Berryer superior to them all is, that from the very begin ning of his discourse he marks from an elevated point the object he aims at. Ho does not abrnptly attack his adver sary—he begins by tracing round him many lines of cir eumvallation ; he dislodges him from all his positions; he deceives him by skilful marches; he approaches him gra• dally; he follows him up; he presses him, lays hold of him, and binds him round and round in the coils of his arguments. This method is the one employed by great minds. It would, however, soon weary an auditory so inattentive as a French Chamber, if M. Berryer did not keep their interest awake by the charm of his voice, the animation of his gesture, and the nobleness of his diction. The Hon. Lloyd Kenyon is recovering from his recent severe illness. THE HANDEL FESTIVAL is due at the Crystal Palace in 1865 ; the date of it, however, is not yet fixed. llF,nn, JOACHIM Will revisit England next season. The Patric asserts that England intends calling upon the Powers to protest collectively against the capture of the Florida, and to support the claims of Brazil. CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE ►SHILLING DAY, MON. DAY, Nov, 14.—Admissions on payment, 676 ; ditto by season tickets, 868; total visitors, 1,544. About £24,000 in gold was taken into the Bank yesterday, but 80,000 Sovereigns worp withdrawn for Alexandria. urt tiro HER MAJESTY. r 14 , WINDSOR C 11 AS TLE ) ° t vit , Her Mojesty the Queen, accompanied belso Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess eL and Princess Helena, went to Claremont this P l° ing, and visited the Queen Marie Arnelie. d°o The suite consisted of the Coun tess of ga the Hon. Caroline C..ivendisb, Colonel the Hardioge, end Major Teesdale. Htz' Majesty went by special train ° tb° Oil Western Railway to the Teddinaton statiat drove from thence to Claremont and back, Visit of tin Queen and Prince and rr ille of Wales to Claremo nt. Her Majesty the Queen, with th eir RO5 11 6les nesses the Prince and Princess of WaiDgei Princess 6DI Helena, attended by Colonel li " t lr Aiit M , .jor Teesdale, drove from 1 Castle shortly after ten o'clock yesterday Rti i to the Windsor station of the South w e ster ° 11 60 way, where they were conducted to the oP le ti o state saloon which formed part of a sPe ci h l o S provided for the use of the royal party, w," - ot ile on the way to Claremont via Teddingtoni 1 ' To to pay a visit to the ex-Queen Marie Araelie, royal . train left Windsor at 10.27, and 1 3 , r ,, ° ; e atO via Staines and Twickenham, to the rre',-;DII station of the King9ton line, where it arriceu,-tDi o'clock. Here two of the royal earrißge' re is Queen's being drawn by four dark greY's".4l'eilid readiness, while at the station and on the rti. il t bridge a number of spectators had congreg6fBtepil catch a glimpse of the Queen and roy al c; The Queen and the prince and princess P-110c, entered the carriage, immediately p roceed e aae it the road to Claremont, the residence of t he es. cad of France. The royal party retur ned to the, ha by special train in the afternoon, a nd arrie'lol Windsor station at 1.33. In both cases thereirol arrangements were excellent, an d the Piiiiforl' were periormen with the greatest ca se and c° ' cc 4 The trip by rail from Windsor to T eddingt°/le pied about 35 minutes. • - b ia i His Royal Highness the Duke of Cic il- f l ' leave town to-morrow, to honour the Earl a nd C° °. Stradbroke with a visit at Henham Hall, Suff3ll'• Olt! The Marchioness of Ormonde a nd Lad I I 5 /i Butler have returned to Kilkenny Castl e, from "" till Abbeyleix. g o t arrived DA° The Marquis and Marchioness of ilea"' r at the St. George's Hotel, d The Earl and Countess of Westizorl6l34' Lord De Lisle and Dudley have left the St. Ge° lle 6 ott° The Earl and Countess Albemarle will eotw 1 a large party at Quiddenham Hall, Norfolk , at al e 613 ~ the month. t tlI tl ; The Earl and Countess Grey arrived 5 ' fr'' residence on Carlton-houe-terrace on Sat'i rdAl 'fF 6s ; Howick Hall, Northumberland, with the intentiO °, 41' ing the winter in Italy. The noble earl a nd c 9lll1 -e ' f London yesterday for Paris, on their way to I .l ° l3 ' e 'l y '', The Earl of Airlie arrived at Lord SOie-av Alderley's residence in Dover-street on SatUrcDis I.° i .0 tour of several months in America. $a ° - 1, The Earl Russell and Lady Georgialeood returned to Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, from ..r' I yesterday. „ O t6 : r , Field-Marshal Viscount and Visco uote le bermere have left Combermere Abbey to Vißi t f 387 rit, chioness of Downshirs. at East Hampstead l'A t° 0 shire. Lord 06 and Lady Proby have returned 011tj Hall, Oundle, from visiting the Marquis and I\l3°lll of Abercorn, at Beaudesert. 111 Lord Naas has left town for Dublin. r $ The Right lion. Henry A. Herbert, Mrs and Miss Herbert, have joined the party 0 Earl and Countess of Erno at Crown Castle. t y SEVERE ILLNESS OF LORD DERBI-- -.l the e ue most sincere regret th4t we annou oce tinned illness ofthe Earl of Derby, and thatflv,ildi quence the visit of the Prince and Princeg o it tie P o Knowsley-hall has been postponed. A conliDicalltl this effect was received by the Mayor, Illf t — arl 'iey. of yesterday, at the Town Hall, from Lord -)"" reli t Derby for some time past has been suffering s e. . r e clol l A t O his old complaint—gout, but within the last fe " o illness has become more severe. He has We il his room for some days, and i s : till su ffering a c , ,e he is attended by Mr G u rst, s u rgeon , o f Huy ton. ',-" h vi si. o is the more unfortunate as it will interfere with t e the Prince and Princess of Wales to L a ncashi rs : t Vel l , Royal Highnesses were to arrive at Knowsley 013 o f ~p 1 day, but in consequence of the continued illn ess Derby it was felt that his lordship could not do e lj t io', honour to his guests. It was likewise feared tha t c it e ment might be detrimental to the health of the 0 1 1 earl, and it is chiefly this apprehension that lia! p cir, the postponement of the visit o f the Prince and 11`011;,e4" Wo understand that although Lord Derby is 0 3 0 bed there is no reason to believe that his illnes s gerous.—Liverpool Courier. (I'° h • EILNIONT liAlD.—The Toronto : ;f a e THE r Af V —" It is understood that the Confederate plan, in;sri of a decision by our courts that the raiders all'i s itt#l rendered, is to carry an appeal to the Judicial Co nj ..; le d , the Privy Council in England. It is reported 1 0 '1,0 4" informed circles that the Washington Government ioolri spatched notice to Great Britain of its intention t%ti 0 the armament on the lakes, as a measure of P°te-r 13 0 t o the frontier, six months notice being required 11 t coo of the treaty of Ghent." 001 A GRATEFUL R E MEMBRANCE.--Ge - „pil res, Commandant of the Polytechnic SoP-0,4"11 received the following letter from a former P a otlo while setting an example of gratitude, wishes b° o ll 0 I remain unknown :—" General,—Some 40 yea rs :'91: 01 0 / was at the Polytechnic School, my family WE L° ,,, ) 4+,0 1 a reverse of fortune to such an extent that, iVi'lliteo ing the strictest economy, my mother (of ebe , r „ ° o9 t v h enerated memory) was on one occasion unable's", the quarterly payment for my board and educeti°,-;01' one he of my comrades was aware of my embarras°4- tltei made a collection among the pupils and o it3 v e v iet l/ 1 quired 250 f without divulging my name. The,P, 5 : 0 1) 0 „ 1 0 4 , duly effected, my mother was able to meet all claims they as fell due, and I pursued my studisilatev imperishable reminiscences—of the benefit rece il e e l/ o l? debt due. I now approach the term of mY c ar : e : r fo ' i fore the close of my life, which alone will tude towards my contemporaries, I fe el bono S d t o ° o ll/ debt to that Polytechnic confraternity in whicli,,,,ite, sentiments and such generous deeds are perPT e a J o f one generation to another. With that vie vi 2,000 f, praying you to employ them as you In / in aiding any of our young comrades embarraof4e-ii te a; /II and who will remain unknown to me as I tat g et Accept, my dear General, the assurance of WY m i,,3• 11 , 1 . guished consideration and my heartfelt than te r/ PUPIL." The General has communica ted thiele" c° 001A1 pupils in an order of the day, and appointed lol' charged to make the best possible use of the 2;vv 0P 4 1 cately offered. f APPREHENSION OF LADY PHIPrP . .., t os MAID FOR OBTAINING GOODS UNDER r 0 1) 0 0 TENCES.—On Saturday, at the Borough r 01 ; e8 514 8 , Windsor, Ellen West, a lady-like person ab° ll " 3 e r o9 age, was brought before Mr W. R. Ilarriot asl charged with obtaining two silk dresses, veltiejtar 10 guineas, from Messrs Bird and Allen, lilletlIber;11 High-street, The prisoner up to the thae , °. ; ",pot o ry hension had been in the service of Lady rr;Deti, f j Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, K.C.13,, Majesty's Privy Purse, residing in iienr/ 007( Windsor Castle, Holding this confidential 0„,.4 was much respected by Lady Phipps, vr l3° .i r e e 't o ,oo t of trust in her lady's maid. On Friday Wes t 4 ".i ll ea// 1 0 Bird and Allen's, and it is understood °b;:seedry dresses, under the pretence of their being 1 01/ .; 0 06 041 mistress. She, however, on leaving the 01144-reellshi a pawnbroker's named Radnor, in Thames: ji purpose of raising money upon the goods. P h o r 00 0? seems, immediately made inquiries respeciing,a ar ea idd having ascertained the manner in which i' s " de rV been obtained, the woman West was a pp /3. f 0:4 residence of Sir Charles Phipps in the e0 111.13 1, 6 ,ag e ' O t t/ The arrest of the prisoner on such a serious c'-citoo searching investigation being made into the e f i per nl 4 ol lady's-maid, and it Was then discovered, frera :" t oo cates, that the prisoner had pawned articles 0 1 ce „ iY O l value belonging to Lady Phipps at various oolelo; don end elsewhere. Among the arli ele° .l s id .40 0/ pawned, it is understood, are some jeweller)" India shawl, a present to her LidyshiP tr°l-iri14,06 roughly valued at upwards of 100 guineas. ". to 0 0s" . • day Sergeant Noble was engaged in hicl uiririt ' ea ject of the prisoner's delinquencies, who 1 10 be rif for a further hearing. Nati °ll ,l it / 00 1,' VALENTIA NEW LIFEBOAT .--Th e ofelA: h ocl boat Institution has just forwarded a Il e % oi ":0011 lentia, on the coast of Km ry. The W il° l ,oo 4 ", )0 0 , the establishment, amounting to £5OB. he s - d j/ a benevolent person resi d e nt in Berkshire' rea dil t e and Limerick Steam Ship CompanY I W 7° „oce 1 :1 1 6 the lifeboat and carriage a freeroal oa Tralee. All the lifeboats, Lng 'tittiOP cog, belong to the National pu t ..Doat 113 b ~0~ nor Th e far PemAtotte b4 ° "''ion 41 t tile tl e Y ar e ti f . 4 ' e 88 C euta 'Me I li a, 4., 10( e, „ t tl„ t -, 1)1